Oleg Baklanov

Oleg Dmitriyevich Baklanov (17 March 1932-) was Minister of General Machine Building of the USSR from 8 April 1983 to 25 March 1988, succeeding Sergey Afanasyev and preceding Vitaly Doguzhiev.

Biography
Oleg Baklanov was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union in 1932, and he worked in an instrument engineering factory before becoming its chief. He served as Minister of General Machine Building from 1983 to 1988, managing the Soviet space industry during the 1980s; from 1981 to 1991, he was also a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Russia. He was one of the leaders of the failed August Coup of 1991, but he was included in the post-coup amnesty of 1994, and he went on to work as a scientist and businessman.